transitive verb
intransitive verb
-·toed, -·to·ingChess to move (a bishop) from its initial position diagonally into the adjacent knight's file
Origin of fianchetto
It, diminutive of fianco, flank, sidefianchetto
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fianchetto
noun
pl. fi·an·chet·ti,The development in chess of a bishop from its original position to the second square of the adjacent knight's file.
tr. & intr.v.
fi·an·chet·toed, fi·an·chet·to·ing, fi·an·chet·tosTo develop as or set up a fianchetto.
Origin of fianchetto
Italian diminutive of fianco flank from Old Italian from Old French flanc ; see flank .THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural fianchetti)
Verb
(third-person singular simple present fianchettos, present participle fianchettoing, simple past and past participle fianchettoed)
Origin
Italian, a diminutive of fianca ‘flank’.
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